Breast cancer, Chemo, Keto and Paleo. A Runner's Journey.

Guest Blog Post:  "My name is Leslie. I am a 38-year-old journalism professor with a passion for nutrition and health research. I was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer one year ago. As an ultra running super vegan, the diagnosis took me, and everyone who knew me, by surprise." View full article →

Healing Fibromyalgia with Paleo, By Kelli Tennant

Since I started eating Paleo in 2009, I feel like a new woman. Not only am I stronger and in control of my health for the long-term, but I am thrilled to say I have been PAIN FREE and healed my fibromyalgia holistically (Paleoly) as of July 2014.

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Taste & Fine Coffee

It's not every day you get to sit down to $900/lb coffee, but this weekend was almost one of them.  Before I get into how I almost opened a bag worth more than I’m usually willing to spend on a hot drink, let’s go back to how I stumbled across the threshold that separates the coffee enjoying world from everyone else.

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Episode 44: Skymind & Artificial Intelligence

Want to know about Artificial Intelligence?  In this podcast we talk with former New York Times writer Chris Nicholson about the company he helped found, Skymind, and what's going on in the fascinating world of machine learning.  Enjoy the show! View full article →

On thresholds and discrimination.

It’s not that you just found Paleo, it’s that you’re not sure what to do next. Maybe you’ve been doing Paleo for longer than a month, maybe you just celebrated your first year (mostly) off of gluten, grain, and dairy. You feel good, but you still want to feel better. What do you do now?

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On grinding coffee.

If you’re anything like me, you want the best of everything you can buy, touch, taste, smell, and experience.  That means in this case, you’ll want to grind your own coffee fresh for every single cup.  Before you go out and buy a cheap grinder that flogs coffee beans into multivariate oblivion, let’s talk about what your coffee grind objective is. View full article →

Systems, lists, and play

There's a list of folks who I pull inspiration from, and in that very listing lies the essence of this idea.  Did those people have systems and lists?  What did those look like, where did they draw the line and stop using linear processes in order to effect their goal, and how did they cultivate that?

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Lessons from 2015

Know what I've learned over the past year?  Don't force anything except a hill run.  Not ideas, not friendships, not writing, not commitments. Allow yourself to sync up with your own rhythm.  Push when you're strong, back off when you're not.  If you feel the creative flow coming, block your ears and pay attention.  If you're angry, or more accurately, irritated...

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Rico's Rules

Rico's eating habits are very public, quite odd, and amongst those of us lucky enough to know him, legendary. His appetite for chicken waffles, for Mustang Bars (and generally any desserts), and for unending boxes of Chinese takeout is without parallel.

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What it takes

I can't tell you with a straight description what it's like to run Paleo Treats. It's not easy, I'll say that. We're a tiny little niche company in a massive market. We sell expensive and very high quality products in an arena flooded with very cheap and very low quality but highly addictive competing products. There are nights we cry and mornings we sing. Perhaps the best way to explain it is to tell you a story.

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What advice would you give?

What advice would you give your 20 year old self? If you're in your late 30s (like me), your initial reaction might be, "Hey bub, look for the following companies and when they come along, buy their stock: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Uber. Oh, and Bitcoin. Buy as much Bitcoin as you can afford."

Of course, that would just make you rich by the time you hit the point you are now, but the problem would be you didn't know how you got there, and you couldn't do it again if you had to.

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7 Pillars: Exercise

In this, the third installment of the Seven Pillars of Paleo, we’re going to talk about Exercise. It is at the same time a simple and extraordinarily complex topic, and one that will absorb all of the attention you care to throw at it.

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